Witness History
Witness History
China and Japan at War
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December 14, 2018
10 minutes
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Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937. The violence that followed marked one of the darkest moments in a struggle that continued throughout WW2. Rebecca Kesby has been speaking to former General Huang Shih Chung, who survived the slaughter in Nanjing as a boy and then fought in China's war of resistance against the Japanese.
Photo: Huang Shih-Chung as a young soldier.